Migrant God

“With eloquence and grace, Isaac Villegas captures the complexity, heartbreak, and resilience found in the US/Mexico borderlands. Embodied in these stories of spiritual communion—from Tijuana to Durham, NC—is a profound treatise on hope, struggle, and the power of solidarity across borders.”
—Felipe Hinojosa, John and Nancy Jackson Endowed Chair in Latin America and Professor of History, Baylor University; author of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio
 
“The Christian story remembers the plight of migrant people who believe and hope in a migrant God. Isaac Villegas offers us testimonies to inspire our politics, and argues that our action must begin with worship and prayer. This is a book for our times.”
—María Clara Bingemer, professor of theology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; author of Latin American Theology: Roots and Branches
 
“With this book, Isaac Villegas has taught me how to think theologically about migration, and how to think alongside migration about God. In so doing, he has transformed my understanding of Christian spirituality and of the practices that constitute Christian life.”
—Lauren Winner, associate professor of Christian spirituality, Duke Divinity School; author of The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin  
 
“Isaac Villegas’s Migrant God isn’t just a book full of powerful, often overwhelming, stories. It is certainly that. But it is also a book that serves as a powerful, often overwhelming, political ‘vision of belonging’—reminding us that amidst the darkness of what nations do daily to God’s migrant people, a light overwhelms the darkness, and the darkness has neither overcome nor comprehended it.”
—Jonathan Tran, associate dean for faculty and associate professor of theology in Great Texts, Baylor University; author of Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism